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Former television talk-show host Phil Donahue became involved in a heated shouting match last night with Fox News host Bill O'Reilly over continued U.S. involvement in Iraq. However, much of America was not able to see the verbal wrestling match, as breaking news of the landing of a crippled JetBlue flight in Los Angeles pre-empted a portion of "The O'Reilly Factor" during its live feed.

Prior to "Roger and Me" Moore was a writer of a small magazine in Davison Michigan. It has been said Moore became confused with what his role was as a writer and the role of the actual Flint activist workers he saw , so he decided to become the " Flint Don Quixote" and subject of his own story to see if America would believe it...and they did. Moore may have wanted to be a blue-collar rebel but some believe he was really a very confused white-collar writer.It mattered not ...to Hollywood...............

From now on, anyone planning a college commencement will have to consider the Chris Hedges problem. Hedges is an antiwar activist and New York Times reporter who gave an unusually grating antiwar speech May 17 at the Rockford College commencement in Illinois. Few speakers aggravate a crowd as quickly as Hedges did in his 18-minute speech. Some in the audience turned their backs on him. Others booed, screamed at Hedges, or blew foghorns. A few rushed up the aisle to protest, and one new graduate threw his cap and gown onto the stage. Twice, somebody in the audience pulled the...

The only thing less surprising than MSNBC finally whacking Phil Donahue, as it did Tuesday, is MSNBC deciding it has to take a hard right turn in order to survive in cable "news." Hardly a sexy, fresh face, the 67-year-old talk-show veteran was positioned to out-shout and out-'tude the human blast furnaces on Fox News. It didn't work fast enough for MSNBC, and his failure will no doubt reinvigorate the opinion that American audiences will never warm to anything other than unabashed conservative partisans or, in the case of MSNBC's other recent hire, talk-radio host Michael Savage, outright bigots. With...

Phil Donahue strikes back at MSNBC NEW YORK - Phil Donahue struck back at MSNBC on Wednesday for his firing, suggesting the network was too quick to pull the trigger and that it might be trying to "out-fox Fox" with conservative voices. Donahue's political talk show, a distant third in the cable news ratings in his time slot, was abruptly pulled from the air after Monday's show. The show premiered last July 15. The legendary talk show host noted that "Donahue's" ratings were better than anything else in struggling MSNBC's prime-time lineup. "It took almost three years for Fox (News...

Reason that “Liberal” Radio and TV Talk Shows Fail for Lack of Audience Phil Donahue is no longer back. He’s off the air. This is why:James Madison’s great fear concerning the future of the U. S., was that when the people in a democracy realize that they can vote themselves largess, they eventually will undermine the stability of the nation. He worried, that through legislation, the many common people would attempt to loot the wealth of the productive members of society and appropriate it for themselves--thus causing its decay. The U.S. is a republic, i.e., a representative democracy. Madison’s fear...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) --  Phil Donahue struck back at MSNBC on Wednesday for his firing, suggesting the network was too quick to pull the trigger and that it might be trying to "out-fox Fox" with conservative voices.</p> <p>Donahue's political talk show, a distant third in the cable news ratings in his time slot, was abruptly pulled from the air after Monday's show. The show premiered last July 15.</p>

Actors Without Scripts Iraq has chemical and biological weapons, North Korea has nukes, Iran is mining uranium, and the Libyans are heading the UN's Human Rights Commission. The Syrians and Saudi's seem closer than ever to being terrorist states and the UN is impotent. What's a sole superpower to do? Some Hollywood types, among others, have decided to try speaking using their own thoughts for a change rather than reading a script. Taking on self-chosen roles, the elite of the Left display their ideas on what it takes to have a peaceful world: Spokespersons for the "peace movement" headed by...

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<p>MSNBC talk-show host Phil Donahue is taking a page from Mark Twain: Reports of his death appear to be an exaggeration.</p> <p>Just weeks after parent network NBC was ready to pull the plug on Donahue's 6-month-old gig, he may have gotten a reprieve. Executives like his shows now that he has begun hosting before a studio audience, as he did in his old daytime talk days.</p>

The Mr. Phil ShowPhil Donahue has made his come back just in time to remind us all how maddening it used to be when his call for "a voice of reason" left us screaming at the television. Now we can turn the channel instead of our stomachs to find something a little more fair and balanced. But for the nostalgic among us, here is Wednesday's rant from the Mr. Phil show on the subject of the United States exercising its will in the wake of 9/11. We paraphrase. What gives us the right to take out a head of state...

Just when you thought it was safe to turn on your television, Phil Donahue returns to the airwaves. Phil Donahue’s second coming to your television dial was greeted with one of the largest media blitzes that America has ever seen. Unfortunately, the regal ratings that MSNBC expected have thus far failed to materialize. Due to thousands of curiosity seekers, the premiere of Donahue’s show was a ratings bonanza. Since then, the numbers have been predictably dismal. In short, Donahue’s new show is failing for the very same reason that he left television in the first place. Donahue became a victim...

DONAHUE — JULY 18, 2002                THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.        PHIL DONAHUE, HOST: Good evening. She’s a well-known conservative whose book, “Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right” is on No. 1 position on “The New York Times” bestseller list. Looky, here.        Well, welcome, Ann Coulter. You couldn’t have been meaner to me. I’m not in the book. What am I? A potted plant? And liberals are rich. If a liberal has indoor...

July 18, 2002 | Orange being the color of insanity, it's no surprise that it features so prominently in the overall look of CNN's "Connie Chung Tonight." No signature hue for this show, now in its third agonizing week, would make more sense. I'm not suggesting that Connie is actually crazy, but she does seem a little out of sorts. Listless, distracted, occasionally manic. Given to the occasional inappropriate remark. She routinely blanks out. Stumbles while straining to read her cue cards. Says "Thank you" and "Are you finished?" before interviewees have furnished their replies to questions she posed seconds...

<p>NEW YORK (AP) --  Phil Donahue, who hung up his microphone in 1996 after three decades on the air, returned to TV with a new discussion program.</p> <p>The same silver hair, the same animated but thoughtful style that distinguished him before was evident in the 66-year-old talk show pioneer.</p>

<p>Pasadena -- There's a lot going on in cable news, and not all of it is pretty. Or even newsworthy, really. There is great flux. There are not -- repeat, not -- great numbers. There is much desperation.</p> <p>It seems as if every other week, a 24-hour cable news channel is getting a face-lift. CNN tries for sexy. Fox adds even more bells and whistles. CNN's Headline News jams the screen with annoying, often useless text.</p>

[...]As opinion-driven Fox has surged into first place in the ratings race among cable news channels, and more straight-laced CNN has hired well-known on-air talent such as Connie Chung, MSNBC executives have been pleading for money from their corporate bosses, NBC and Microsoft, to make the station more than an embarrassing, money-losing also-ran.[...]Former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, who got a show just last January, declined to move to MSNBC's daytime lineup and will be off after July 15, the day most changes take effect.[...]

MSNBC TO LAUNCH NEW PRIMETIME LINEUP BEGINNING MONDAY, JULY 15Published: June 10, 2002 "DONAHUE" AT 8:00 PM, ET, “NACHMAN” AT 7:00 PM JOIN CHRIS MATTHEWS, ASHLEIGH BANFIELD – IN NEW TIME SLOTSMULTIMILLION DOLLAR MARKETING CAMPAIGN HERALDS "DONAHUE" AND NEW PRIMETIME LINEUPSECAUCUS, N.J. -- June 10, 2002 -- MSNBC, America’s NewsChannel, which is rebranding itself as the cable news network that goes beyond the day’s headlines to provide fiercely independent analysis of the news, will premiere a new primetime lineup on Monday, July 15, it was announced today by Erik Sorenson, President and General Manager, MSNBC.“On July 15, MSNBC will have...

If there were a lifetime achievement award for sucking, Phil Donahue would get my vote. As the father of the daytime talk show, Phil Donahue is the Marco Polo of trash TV and the reason that modern presidential elections are won by the candidate who causes the most autoerotic secretions by women watching Oprah. It was Phil Donahue who birthed a television format where one day his audience could watch an abortion and the next day stick a dollar in the crotch of a Chippendale dancer. In its 29-year-run (1967-1996), there were nearly 7,000 Phil Donahue shows. Shows that brought...

Donahue Heading for Prime Time?By Verne Gay STAFF WRITER April 3, 2002 MSNBC is expected to announce today that Phil Donahue will host a new 8 p.m. show, an addition that will reconfigure the network's prime-time lineup. Donahue, according to reports, will host a talk show without a studio audience-banishing any thoughts, perhaps, that he intends to revive his influential daytime talker that was laid to rest after 29 years in May 1996. The new show is to go up against "The O'Reilly Factor" on Fox News Channel, and a Connie Chung-hosted show on CNN, which- she said last week-will...